Knitting wasn’t Sally’s thing…but she did become a GREAT acupuncturist!
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Uh, sorry. But that IS knitting that she’s doing.
Absolutely…and not novice work, either. The look of concentration is because you HAVE to concentrate when working 5 needles in the round.
Maybe if people who don’t know what they’re looking at would stop labeling things as a fail?
I disagree, she’s a novice at dpns, hence the concentration. If she wasn’t a novice, she would be holding her work more comfortably and wouldn’t need to concentrate much at all.
But I agree it’s not a fail, but then this isn’t fail blog.
>.< I can't even knit with two needles..let alone five. If I concentrated that hard my head would explode.
I thought only four were used for socks… three holding the shape and then the one that you were moving. Then again I do better with a loom than I do with any sort of needle.
You can use four or five. I use five when I’m at the top of the sock and migrate down to four when I decease in the foot.
Also, I’m totally on the “not a fail” train. Her work looks pretty good, and the fact that she’s using DPNs at all at her age is impressive enough to me.
I still hold my DPNs wonky, and I’ve been knitting with them since middle school. Good thing there’s no “right” or “wrong” way to do it as long as your work comes out properly!
Oh – it does Good Old Granny some good to see you young ‘uns get it right. She’s making a sock, and doing it well I might add. By the way – she’s holding it that way because her hands are small. I have very small hands and have to hold knitting that way, and I’ve been knitting socks for about 45 years.
The sad thing is that this little girl is most likely a grandmother herself now. The good thing is that young girls and women are still learning how to knit, crochet, tat, cross stitch and so forth. Not because they have to but because they have found how relaxing and rewarding it is. I don’t think most fiber arts are in any danger of dieing out… unless you count smocking, that one is hard to find a teacher for. And yes, this little cutie is knitting the way she is because she is still so young but no doubt a very good knitter today.
It is getting hard to find any young people that are interested in macrame today, it had a big revival in the 60s and 70s when I learned it, then kind of faded away again. Just one more almost worthless skill in my toolbox.
AND she’s a continental knitter! Wooo, represent!
Haha!